Tomas Vaitkus

Tomas Vaitkus

Tomas Vaitkus (2008)
To person
Date of birth	4th February 1982
nation	Lithuania
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Rietumu Banka-Riga
function	driver
Last updated: March 11, 2017

Tomas Vaitkus (born February 4, 1982 in Klaipėda ) is a Lithuanian cyclist .

Career

Vaitkus became a professional at Landbouwkrediet-Colnago in 2003 . He drove there for two years and switched to the current UCI ProTeam Ag2r Prévoyance . The U23 time trial world champion from 2002 had his most successful year in the 2005 season. He won the Tartu GP and finished second in several important races. Among other things, he finished second in the 2006 Giro d'Italia and fourth in the Tour of Denmark , where he had won two stages in previous years. In the UCI Europe Tour 2005 , the strong sprinting Lithuanian finished 15th overall.

At the Giro d'Italia 2006 he beat Paolo Bettini , Olaf Pollack and Robbie McEwen in the mass sprint of the 9th stage and thus secured the biggest victory of his career.

At the end of the 2013 season he ended his career as a professional cyclist. However, he came back from his retirement for the 2015 season.

successes

Tomas Vaitkus near Milan-Sanremo (2012)

2002

• World Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
• Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen

2003

• Lithuanian champion - individual time trial

2004

• Lithuanian champion - road race
• Lithuanian champion - individual time trial

2005

• Tartu Grand Prix

2006

• a stage of the Giro d'Italia

2008

• one stage Algarve tour
• Ronde van het Groene Hart
• Lithuanian champion - road race

2012

• Team time trial Tirreno – Adriatico

2013

• a stage Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
• Lithuanian champion - road race

2016

• one stage Tour Internationale d'Oranie
• Grand Prix de la Ville d'Oran
• two stages and points classification Tour International de Sétif
• Overall ranking Tour International de Constantine
• Lithuanian Championship - Road Race

Grand Tour overall ranking

Grand Tour	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro d'Italia	DNF	-	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	-	DNF	-	-	-	140	-	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	95	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2003 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago
• 2004 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago
• 2005 AG2R Prévoyance
• 2006 AG2R Prévoyance
• 2007 Discovery Channel
• 2008 Astana
• 2009 Astana
• 2010 Team RadioShack
• 2011 Pro Team Astana
• 2012 Orica GreenEdge
• 2013 Orica GreenEdge
• 2015 Rietumu dolphin
• 2016 Nasr-Dubai
• 2017 Rietumu Banka-Riga

Web links

Commons : Tomas Vaitkus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tomas Vaitkus in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Tomas Vaitkus in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vaitkus ends career after fallout with Orica-GreenEdge. In: Cycling Quotes. January 7, 2014, accessed December 28, 2016 .